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While we got a visas a few months ago already, we had some substantial fixing-up to do on our house, and had to get it sold before we could book flights, etc.

Well, we accepted on offer on our house on the day that it was listed, and their bond was approved 7 days later! Selling our house was such a huge worry for us - we were thinking that it might take months, and actually its taken a day.

So now its full speed ahead. We move out on 9 November and stay with my wife's folks until we fly on 29 December. The container will leave immediately on 9 November.

Would your container not be there before you are, they say it takes 6 weeks?

Thanks. They're telling us 8 weeks, so it'll be there a few days after we arrive. Lots of pressure to find a place ASAP when we get there. And its the middle of holidays, so I'm not sure how easy house-hunting is going to be?

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Congratulations. Double check when your container arrives, as it is costly for it to sit there while it waits for you. You pay per day. I am not sure where you will be house hunting, but holidays is the worst time in our area.

Congratulations. Double check when your container arrives, as it is costly for it to sit there while it waits for you. You pay per day. I am not sure where you will be house hunting, but holidays is the worst time in our area.

Our container will almost certainly be there before we have a house to move our stuff into. Its going to cost us a $450 handling fee, plus $68 per week storage. The alternative was to store it on this side for a couple of weeks, which would be cheaper, but then they don't pack it directly into the container, and I worry that stuff might go missing between leaving our house and loading on the ship.

Today I got a quote from 2 companies, one was R70k I almost made a poopie in me pantie

The other one from biddulphs was R55k much better. On the quote there are quote a few things "not included in the price" which makes me wonder how much are we going to pay in when the container arrives there

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Goldie, I asked the Biddulphs guy what the other costs would be, since their paperwork had a mile long list. He explained that the only definite one was a clearance fee which I think was around R6k (don't quote me on that, and it obviously depends on the exchange rate at the time). Then if for some reason MPI (previously MAF) get sticky on something in the container, then there could be extra costs for cleaning, etc.

Those costs would be the same for all movers though, since its not the movers that are charging the fees.

6K for a clearance fee ? Are the papers made from silk and do they use solid gold pens ? I did my own clearance in NZ, and it was very easy once I had been told exactly which papers to fill in, who to take it to. It was as simple as that.

Today I saw 3 people and now im DONE. Really dont want to show anyone through my house ever again...

Last person i saw was Brenda from Bayley and wow she knows what she is talking about. Really can see she knows her story and i was most impress with her and got the best feeling about their company. Gonna get all the quotes on Monday.

There was also only ONE of all these companies that is willing to let us pay before the container arrives in NZ which takes a lot of stress off of us !